A Personal Journey in Software Testing and Quality

Growing Through Bugs, Teams, and Transformations in Software Testing

What does it mean to grow a QA career from zero to strategic leadership?

In A Personal Journey in Software Testing and Quality, Konstantinos Konstantakopoulos shares ten years of field-tested insights—from debugging as a support engineer to building scalable automation frameworks and leading global quality teams.

This isn’t a theory book. It’s a practical, candid, and inspiring narrative filled with hard-won lessons, team patterns, and the daily realities of quality at scale.

Whether you're a junior tester or an engineering leader, this book will sharpen your strategy, expand your mindset, and help you make quality a force multiplier in your organization.

Konstantinos Konstantakopoulos

What does it mean to grow a QA career from zero to strategic leadership?

This isn’t a theory book. It’s a practical, candid, and inspiring narrative filled with hard-won lessons, team patterns, and the daily realities of quality at scale.

Whether you're a junior tester or an engineering leader, this book will sharpen your strategy, expand your mindset, and help you make quality a force multiplier in your organization.

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This e-book is a culmination of over a decade of hands-on experience in the software quality and testing field.

It’s designed to share real-life lessons, frameworks, and insights from my professional journey—one that spans a transition

from customer support debugging to leading quality engineering across countries and teams. This book is not about companies, but about practice, principles, and people. It’s for QA professionals, engineering leaders, developers, and anyone who believes in the power of quality at scale.

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Konstantinos Konstantakopoulos

Konstantinos Konstantakopoulos is a seasoned Quality Engineering leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling testing practices at fast-growing tech organizations. He has guided cross-functional teams through the shift from ad hoc QA to risk-based, CI/CD-driven test automation and has designed performance-testing strategies, BDD frameworks, and “golden path” pipelines in multiple languages (Java, Groovy, JavaScript, Python). An ISTQB-certified Test Automation Engineer and Technical Test Analyst, Konstantinos has mentored squads worldwide, established QA chapters, and spoken at industry events on topics ranging from TestOps to quality-driven design. Based in Athens, Greece, he maintains an active presence sharing insights on LinkedIn and GitHub.

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